Nearly 4,200 parents, grandparents, siblings and friends convened on the Vanderbilt campus to celebrate Family Weekend 2024. This year’s event, Sept. 6–8, was one of the most successfully attended in recent memory, recording the highest attendance number in five years.
Throughout the weekend, guests were invited to share coffee and conversation with college deans, take tours throughout campus, attend open houses and listen in on various panel discussions. Also on the action-packed agenda: a Commodore Classroom presentation on generative AI with Professor of Computer Science Jules White, a grandparents social and tea, an alumni parent pick-me-up, a cooking demo with Campus Dining and a smoothie party at the Center for Student Wellbeing.
This year’s festivities also included the return of the Fall for the Arts festival, and a question-and-answer session with Chancellor Daniel Diermeier and other Vanderbilt leaders about the university’s commitments to open dialogue and free expression and to fostering radical collaboration.
The weekend continued with a tour of Nashville courtesy of Old Town Trolley and Gray Line, followed by the Commodore football tailgate picnic and victorious game against Alcorn State. Wrapping up the ’Dore-dedicated weekend: a farewell breakfast at the Student Life Center featuring a market full of mementos for family and friends to take home.
